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Transparent Shaker Christmas Card ft. Simon Says Stamp Bear Necessities

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Channel: Lesley Oman · 2016 · People & Blogs

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How to make a Christmas shaker card with a transparent front and some surprise snow, featuring Simon Says Stamp Bear Necessities stamp, My Favorite Things Beast Friends, Lawn Fawn Toboggan Together and Mama Elephant Page Hugger Stamps. Also features Lawn Fawn Stitched rectangle, Stitched hillside borders and simple stitched hillside border dies and Mama Elephant Park Avenue dies. 
This card has Distress Ink blending, heat embossing and Copic colouring.

By Lesley Oman, HungryHeffyCrafts

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Hello crafty friends, thanks for stopping by today - I have got a fun shaker card tutorial for you guys today featuring this cute bear from the Bear Necessities stamp set from SimonSaysStamp. This little guy totally inspired my card because in the stamp set there is also a stamp for his cute little furry butt! LOL. So I decided to make the front of my card transparent so you can see the bear from the front, and from behind him. To create the project, I used watercolour cardstock  - which is a bit more sturdy than standard cardstock - so I find that shaker cards stand up more easily when the card is a bit thicker. I cut two frames using the Mama Elephant Park Avenue frame die, and then used the Lawn Fawn simple stitched hillside border dies to cut a hilly mound from the inside panels of both frames. I cut them both together, back to back, so when I put them on the card (one on the front and one on the back of the shaker) they would line up perfectly.

I used the same watercolour cardstock to create a back panel for my card. I cut it at 5.5 " x 4.5', and then scored the smaller side at 4.25". This creates an A2 piece of card with a 0.25" flap. I can then adhere one of the frames to the flap to join the front and back panels together, before sticking some acetate on top.

For the 'shaky bits' I am using this cool new Honey Bee Stamps Embellishment calls 'Ice Chips Glitter'. It almost looks like tiny shards of glass, and in a shaker it looks like glistening snow! The best thing about these Ice Chips is that they are super thin- so I only need one layer of foam tape around my frame. Normally with seed beads and sequins you need two layers so there is enough room for the shaky bits to move around, but these Ice Chips work a treat with one layer - so it makes the card much easier to post!

I use my MISTI tool to align the frame on top with the one underneath (or you can use a score board), and I made sure to use a powder tool on the inside of the acetate and around the foam tape to remove any static or sticky residue.

I then stuck down the snowy mounds on the front and back of the shaker - and these hide the Ice Chips perfectly when the card is standing up, so it is extra fun when you pick up the card and discover it has snow inside! heehee.

On the inside of the card, I wanted to create a sky landscape. First I stuck down a rectangle of matching cardstock (cut using the Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle dies) and to go on top I used a piece of cardstock that was lying on my desk from a previous project . I had inked it up using peacock feathers, wilted violet and chipped sapphire distress ink. I added some faux stitching around the edges using a Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle die, and then moved over the greeting which says 'Happy Holidays'. This is a sweet greeting from the Lawn Fawn Toboggan Together set. In the set it was one combined image, but I wanted to stack the words one above the other, so I used my scissors to carefully snip the two words apart.

After the greeting was embossed, I added a little snow with a SimonSaysStamp Falling Snow stencil and some embossing paste, making sure that i used washi tape to cover the greeting first, as I didn't want the snowfall to interfere with the message. I would recommend that you set this aside to dry for about an hour before moving on, but I was impatient, so kept going, but had to be mindful so I didn't smudge the embossing paste!

..more description on my blog post at HungryHeffyCrafts.com

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